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Reading Langston Hughes’s poetry is like going to church.<p>And by church, I mean the type of church where the congregation calls out “amen” as the pastor preaches. Where people wearing their Sunday best — big hats and polished shoes — wave their hands giving praise, shouting, “I know that’s right!” …

There are many different ideas about the characteristics a person must possess or develop to become successful.<p>At the top of many people's lists are traits like integrity and self-confidence. Clearly, it is hard to climb any mountain if you don't have the self-confidence to trust yourself, and the …

When you are the first person to arrive in a meeting room, do you think of it as being empty or full?<p>If you were raised in the West, a meeting room is made for people to meet. Therefore, if there are no people in that room, then of course it must be empty. As philosopher Henk Oosterling remarks, in …

• "The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."<br>• "Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."<br>• "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and …

Every day, somewhere in the world, it is likely there is a TED or TEDx event going on. This speaks to the power of a brand that has flourished for more than 30 years, providing thought-provoking talks on the simple premise of "ideas worth spreading."<p>This can be a double-edged sword -- there are so …

The owners defended the name at one point, saying, "You can't please everybody."<p>Two white owners of a Johannesburg, South Africa, restaurant have apologized after they landed in hot water for their establishment’s tasteless name.<p>Ryan Vermaak and Fabio Di Cosmo recently issued a statement regarding …

Parents today have it rough. Don't overschedule your kids, they're told, but don't fail to nurture their passions. Beware helicopter parenting, but if your kid gets anything more than a scratch, you're a terrible mom. Be authoritative, but not authoritarian. Keep tech use within healthy bounds, but …

One of the greatest ironies in the history of the collapse of any civilisation must be the initial interaction between Africans and Europeans. The Igbos in the east of Nigeria, for instance, initially saw the Europeans as madmen of strange appearance and ill-formed ideologies. On banking, the Igbos …

The Netflix adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s mid-19th-century-set novel tells us about the post-Weinstein era like nothing else<p>“I can hear in his voice that he is afraid of me. A woman like me is always a temptation, if possible to arrange it unobserved: as whatever we may say about it later, we …

<b>Washington (CNN) —</b> My name's Hunter Schwarz, and I co-write CNN's COVER/LINE newsletter, about the intersection of politics and pop culture. I've written about and photographed political street art across the country, from a mural of the Obamas in Washington, DC, to a 14-foot Donald Trump posted …

"We have decided over the time that teaching to the AP is not the best way of teaching US history," Andover head of school said. Emma Fierberg/Business Insider<p>Phillips Academy, a boarding school in Andover, Massachusetts, that is often pegged as the best high school in America, thinks about the …

Philosopher Richard Reeves has come to a harsh conclusion about inequality in the US. “America has a meritocratic market but an unfair society,” he writes in the book <i>Dream Hoarders,</i> published earlier this year.<p>In Reeves’s view, the US is now a relatively “fair” society for people 25 and older. …

In 1932 and 1933, millions died across the Soviet Union—and the foreign press corps helped cover up the catastrophe.<p>In the years 1932 and 1933, a catastrophic famine swept across the Soviet Union. It began in the chaos of collectivization, when millions of peasants were forced off their land and …

Excitement about Naomi Alderman’s dystopian novel “The Power” has been arcing across the Atlantic since it won the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction earlier this year in England. Now, finally, Americans can feel the jolt of this extraordinary book for themselves. Alderman has written our era’s …

In 2011, I was sitting in a dark theatre when JR, the environmental artist, was announced as the recipient of the TED Prize. JR’s canvas is the world. He uses his work as a photographer of faces to capture humanity and then prints out huge images, which he pastes on crumbling walls of the world ― …